Apple iPad and related items

[Kanda]

I don't seem to remember this much venom when the Palm Pre was delayed...

 

[tarannau]

I bet he was right stamping his foot whilst typing that.

Ooh. I won't be able to play with it in the shops for a month. The bastards eh

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Well I want it. Fuck the yanks.

 

[Kanda]

I was waiting for the 3G one anyway, not fussed

 

[tarannau]

It wouldn't have turned out this way if Sir Clive and the Spectrum ruled the computer world.

 

[editor]

I don't seem to remember this much venom when the Palm Pre was delayed...

The Palm Pre wasn't delayed in the UK because of claimed high US sales. Mind you, I imagine Palm would have loved to have had it delayed for those reasons, but there you go. What's this got to do with this thread, btw?

Oh, and I certainly was pissed off at the huge delay between the US and UK Pre launches. It was well annoying. The fucks.

I bet he was right stamping his foot whilst typing that.

Who? Why?

 

[Kanda]

What's this got to do with this thread, btw?

Probably about as much as Thinkpads

 

[stupid dogbot]

It wouldn't have turned out this way if Sir Clive and the Spectrum ruled the computer world.

It'd have rubber keys, for a start.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

*wail of frustrated lust*

See it as an extra month to come to your senses ;-)

 

[Crispy]

ooooh, looks very likely that the ipad supports USB1 audio devices - that means 2x2 I/O which means headphones and output which means fully-fledged DJ apps

 

[Echo Base]

Never early-adopt Apple products. Big mistake. iPad 1.1 is bound to have things like a camera, a USB port. And theyll be jailbreaked by that point too!

 

[Kanda]

so you just go buy a 1.1 and give the original one to the g/f. Simple.

 

[Crispy]

so you just go buy a 1.1 and give the original one to the g/f. Simple.

I am going to have to buy something in this sort of size, so I either

a)buy a netbook now, maybe a 1.1 or 2.0 ipad down the road

or

b)buy an ipad now, maybe a 1.1 or 2.0 ipad down the road

My guess is that a 1.0 ipad will hold more resale/reuse value than a netbook

 

[Kanda]

This early adopt Apple products thing is a load of crap though. Everything gets upgraded at some point, not JUST Apple products.

 

[Crispy]

This early adopt Apple products thing is a load of crap though. Everything gets upgraded at some point, not JUST Apple products.

doesn't stop it making sense though

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

ooooh, looks very likely that the ipad supports USB1 audio devices - that means 2x2 I/O which means headphones and output which means fully-fledged DJ apps

If it's only 2 channels out it's useless for DJ apps, you need a cue output as well.

Could still have interesting uses though, but nothing like as interesting as it could be if Apple weren't so fucking controlling about the whole affair

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This early adopt Apple products thing is a load of crap though. Everything gets upgraded at some point, not JUST Apple products.

Yes, I've never understood it. If you want one, buy it ASAP unless it's going to be updated in the next few months, because that means you'll be able to use it for longer. If you don't want this version enough to buy it now, then you wait to see what the next version has.

 

[Crispy]

There's the headphone socket on the ipad isn't there?

 

[Lazy Llama]

The usual reason not to buy Apple products soon after release is that they tend to have a few hardware foibles, e.g. Macbook heatsink, 27 inch iMac displays. These are usually sorted after a few months though. That really only applies to 'new' products though, rather than revisions of existing hardware.

 

[Crispy]

And besides, those issues are always well catered for if you take the thing into the apple store

 

[editor]

There's as much actual weight to this one as a fluffy little cloud, but the Telegraph is speculating that the next iPad may do something really radical like include a camera.

I wonder if those folks here who positively insisted that having a built in camera was a really bad idea will feel when it comes to upgrade time.

I'd say it would be a ruddy useful thing myself. Stick in a SD card slot and USB and I'll start to look interested. And multi-tasking, of course. It's shite without that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7596906/Next-gen-iPad-to-feature-camera.html

 

[Kanda]

I wonder if those folks here who positively insisted that having a built in camera was a really bad idea will feel when it comes to upgrade time.

Who on earth said that?

 

[editor]

Who on earth said that?

Sunnysidedown thinks a camera on the iPad would be a "ludicrous idea."

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10498326&postcount=1552

 

[Kanda]

So just the one then.

 

[magneze]

iPad printing solution:

 

[sunnysidedown]

Sunnysidedown thinks a camera on the iPad would be a "ludicrous idea."

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10498326&postcount=1552

yeah, using an iPad to take pictures with would be daft - a front facing webcam otoh, would be a different kettle of fish all together.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Sunnysidedown thinks a camera on the iPad would be a "ludicrous idea."

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10498326&postcount=1552

a quick look at that article reveals this:

Technology experts have already discovered a slot within the iPad's frame that is exactly the right size for an Apple iSight camera.

 

[Sunray]

That could just mean that they gave themselves the option of including one but decided it wasn't really necessary in field trials so ditched the idea.

Popular pressure might lead to its re-instatement.

 

[editor]

If you're waiting for the 3G...

Apple's seeming disregard for European customers continues with the launch of the 3G version of the iPad in the US.

The iPad 3G will begin shipping in the US on 7 May - three days before Apple will even start taking pre-orders for the regular iPad in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Apple announced last week that it was delaying the international release of the iPad so that it could meet stronger than expected demand in the US.

The company said it didn't expect iPads to actually start shipping in the UK until the end of May.

Apple even had the temerity to suggest customers would take heart from the delay in its official press statement last week. "We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far," the statement read.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357331/apple-to-ship-ipad-3g-in-us-before-taking-pre-orders-in-uk

 

[Lazy Llama]

Must be taking a page out of Palm's book